Title: The Amazing Spider-Man
Issue Number: 272
Release Date: January 1986
Highlights
- First appearance of Slyde, AKA Jalome Beacher, the Kisani Tribe, and member Joseph Threetrees, Beemont Manufacturing, and workers Rockwall, and Max, security guard, Andy, and NYPD officers, Jerry, and Phil
- First appearance of the Queens County Hospital
- Slyde robs a banks with a toy pistol
- Reference is made to Secret Wars II
- Peter goes to the hospital to see Nathan, and gets the brush off by both Aunt May and him
- Slyde steals a briefcase from his old boss, Rockwall, just for revenge
- Slyde ransoms the briefcase back to Rockwall, and in turn Rockwall calls in every available man to be at the drop that evening
- In his attempts to track down the men who beat Nathan, Spider-Man learns about the ambush on Slyde that evening, and shows up to help him not get killed
- We learn Slyde made a deal with the DA to nab Rockwall at the exchange, but after they do, he nabs the case full of money, taking off
- Spider-Man decides he's not going to bother chasing after him because it's not his problem
- In an epilogue, the Kisani Tribe see the future, and their vision shows the destruction of the world
- Seeking out his nephew, the Shaman tells Thomas Firehart, AKA Puma, that he must face he who comes from beyond (Beyonder), and suggests he enlists the aid of Spider-Man
- Spider-Man feels sorry that he wasn't able to help Nathan Lubensky from getting beaten up - Why? They guy treats Peter like a jerk
- We get Slyde's origin, and it's really dumb - He's robbing banks because he wants to earn enough money to open his own non-stick cooking pan company, and because he was fired from his previous job where he developed said pan
Oddities
- Editor's Day Off: The banker says to Slyde, "Your gun looks awful like a toy pistol, mister!" Missing "an"
- The cops give chase in their car after Slyde, siren blaring, and the one officer tells the other that they're gaining on him, just for Slyde to inform them that's only what they think - How are they hearing each other talk?
- Though Slyde is glad the cops crashed, and aren't following him anymore, he's equally glad they aren't hurt - A villain with a conscience?
- Continued Editor's Day Off - The doctor says to Peter, "It's almost as his attackers went out of their way to avoid inflicting and lasting injuries on him", missing "if"
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